Health & Wellness

The most recent statistics out of the Bahamian Ministry of Health shows that 80 percent of our Bahamian children are overweight and that some 28.5 percent of that number are clinically obese. When I graduated medical school in 1971, gout was a rare diagnosis in black people especially men. However, my first patient this morning…

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA (BIS) April 25, 2017 – The Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission’s decision to take a public health approach to the treatment of drug use and related disorders is one that should be embraced, Rochelle Basden, Deputy Director of Psychological Services at Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre in The Bahamas, told delegates attending the Third…